The plasma sword wielded by one of the orven martial lesser phase lords was not an inferior weapon.
Although it was not as unnaturally sharp and penetrating as Saint Piercer arms,
plasma swords were powerful enough in their own way.
They were also incredibly expensive to construct and operate. They consumed energy like nothing else, but it was usually worth it because their damage output was just as exaggerated!
The one wielded by Zren-Divar was more powerful than most, not just because of its much greater size in comparison to the Scarlet Ember.
Another reason why it was so powerful in the hands of the orven phase lord was because it was able to tap directly into the large power reactor integrated inside Zren-Divar's raiment to fuel its extreme hunger for energy!
The weapon's contact with the large raiment also allowed the latter to effectively serve as a heatsink, thereby draining a lot of excess heat that would have built up in the mechanical structure of the plasma weapon and cause its components to melt. A third reason why the plasma sword was able to chop apart any other expert mech with relative ease was because it was based on modern and advanced human design principles.
The technological sophistication of the plasma sword was only slightly inferior to the ones wielded by expert mechs and ace mechs of the Red Association, the Terran Alliance and the Rubarthan pact.
All of these strengths drastically increased the danger that the Bastion was in. The expert heavy space knight amazingly managed to last far longer than the Riot after getting struck by the plasma sword, but her margin of safety was dwindling by the millisecond.
Venerable Jannzi truly felt as if her battle partner had plunged into star!
The discharge of thermal energy was incredibly high!
Her willpower which was supposed to be strong and robust enough to allow her to last for an entire battle was rapidly being consumed just to resist direct contact with a plasma sword!
The Bastion was struggling as well. Her systems were being forced to perform under circumstances far greater and more destructive than she was originally designed to cope against!
How could Ves and Gloriana know that Venerable Jannzi would willingly put her Bastion in the path of an extremely powerful energy weapon?
It was exactly because Venerable Jannzi possessed the courage to put her expert mech in the path of this devastating energy sword that she began to feel as if she was truly fulfilling her purpose!
"I must hold on... I must hold on..."
The strain on Jannzi and her expert mech increased as the azure energy shield rapidly destabilized. The plasma sword fueled by the lesser phase lord's modern raiment was simply too powerful.
Even if the weapon was beginning to show greater signs of instability, it was so well-made that it would probably remain active longer than the Bastion could last!
"Save the Bastion!"
"We're trying our best!"
Zren-Divar paid a great price for ignoring everything else so that he could drive his plasma sword through the Bastion and finally finish off what remained of the Riot.
The Karma Cutters that had been Enfeoffed by Saint Casella Ingvar launched a torrent of resonance-empowered Null Rounds that were rapidly wearing down the phase lord's spatial barrier.
The Valkyrie Krista and the Valkyrie Ursa had abandoned their cautious fighting approach. The two expert marauder mechs continually stuck to the sides of the orven phase lord and not only made sure to weaken his transphasic capabilities with their powerful space suppressors, but also used their spears to break the spatial barrier even faster!
Even so, the martial phase lord had clearly invested significantly in his energy defenses. He had completely eschewed fancy spatial techniques in favor of fortifying his foundation.
This meant that his spatial barrier was not as easy to overcome as the spatial barriers of other phase lords!
The azure energy shield of the Bastion may be stronger and more sophisticated than that of other expert mechs, but it was impossible for it to match the strength of Zren-Divar's spatial barrier.
Both of them operated on a completely different scale!
The Bastion, while large compared to other expert mech, was like a dwarven child in front of Zren-Divar,
The shield generator had done its best, but all of the true resonance that Jannzi leveraged to amplify its performance could not stop it from reaching its hard physical limits.
It overheated and broke down!
"Caraful Iannail"
The plasma sword had finally overcome another layer of defense and was currently trying to burn directly through the Bolton Armor that gave the Bastion her iconic
appearance.
Venerable Jannzi and her battle partner were on a timer now. The Bolton Armor was able to remain remarkably solid and intact at first, but the machine was rapidly heating up. Soon enough, the powerful transphasic alloys would reach their melting point and succumb.
The female expert pilot was determined to delay this catastrophic event as much as possible.
She could practically feel the interior of the cockpit heating up as she tried her best to resonate harder with her battle partner than ever before!
"L... WON'T... LET... YOU... DIE... BASTION. NOT... AGAIN..."
Jannzi had suffered a great amount of trauma after witnessing the death of the original Shield of Samar during a fateful clash against the Skorpion Kommando.
She was lucky that Ves managed to create a reborn version of her original machine. While the
Bastion was different in many ways, Jannzi still considered her to be a continuation of the expert mech that she had lost.
There was no point in ejecting her cockpit this time. Jannzi had formed the very first Blood Pact in existence with the Bastion. The two had become permanently tied
together.
Losing the Bastion was like losing the other half of her soul.
Rather than live the remainder of her life as an incomplete half, she would rather end
her misery straight away by dying with her battle partner!
The third order living mech knew that, so she did not try to persuade Jannzi to do
anything else.
Both of them were of the same mind in this regard.
Given their strict circumstances, I was a stupid decision for Jannzi to send her expert mech forward and attempt to block the plasma sword head-on by putting both of their
lives at risk.